spleenwort : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spleenwort	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spleenwort
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spleenwort n any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spleenwort \Spleen"wort`\, n. [Spleen + wort; cf. L. splenium, asplenium, Gr. [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?]. ] (Bot.) Any fern of the genus {Asplenium}, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.